Use of Ambulance Dispatch Data as an Early Warning System for Communitywide Influenza like Illness, New York City

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Mostashari, Farzad ^a,c   Fine, Annie ^a   Das, Debjani ^a   Adams, John ^b   Layton, Marcelle ^a  

^a NY City Dept of Hlth/Mental Hyg   (United States)

^b Government of New york   (United States)

^c Bureau of Epidemiology Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulance dispatch; Bioterrorism; Cyclical regression; Emergency medical services; Influenza surveillance; Syndromic surveillance; Time series

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

ACCURACY; AMBULANCE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MODEL; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AMBULANCES; BIOTERRORISM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NEW YORK CITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS;

EID: 0141722724     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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